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Vogue Australia gave us sleek and sophisticated last month with a stunning Carey Mulligan and now takes us down a different path for February 2018. It’s hard to believe Dakota Fanning has never been on the cover of Vogue before (unlike sister Elle Fanning) but we guess it’s better late than never as she finally makes her debut on Aussie Vogue‘s latest. Photographed by Emma Summerton, Dakota was styled by Natasha Royt throughout the bright and flamboyant cover shoot, wearing Gucci in the newsstand cover image (below).

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Unfortunately, our forum members weren’t buying it. “Like, why, do people care about her? They tried to make her look very Gemma [Ward]-ish, and it’s a cool concept, but she is so boring to me,” commented HeatherAnne upon seeing the cover.

“Yeah, I thought she was Gemma at first glance. I think it’s a very pretty concept. Is she having a comeback of sorts? I feel like her sister overtook her and now Dakota seems to be creeping back into the spotlight,” Elite13 added. (more…)

After two consecutive advertising campaigns shot by Steven Meisel, Zara must have been paying attention to our forum members’ praise when they decided to bring the legendary fashion photographer back for Spring 2018. Shying away from the classic gray backdrops, Meisel switches it up and shoots a handful of his current muses around a bohemian-looking set. Adut Akech, Ansley Gulielmi, Aube Jolicoeur, Cara Taylor, Fran Summers, Kiki Arai, Lea Julian, Remington Williams, Rianne van Rompaey and Vittoria Ceretti were Meisel’s models of choice this season, along with Karl Templer on styling duties.

IMAGE: ZARA.COM

For the first time, the Meisel-shot campaign left our forums divided. “I love it. The setting and styling looks splendid. Easily one of my favorites so far and yet another small victory for Zara,” applauded Benn98 upon checking out the images.

Every magazine has its go-to cover girl and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley is a firm favorite of British Harper’s Bazaar. The model has appeared on every September cover for the magazine since 2014, except for last year when she was pregnant. Making up for lost time, Rosie is back, appearing on Bazaar‘s second-biggest issue of the year: March 2018. Shot by Agata Pospieszynska on location at the Four Seasons Hotel in London, Rosie wears Saint Laurent with the Tower Bridge in the background on the bright and inviting newsstand cover (below). For the limited subscribers cover (after the jump), the Brit beauty is captured in black and white outside the hotel wearing Altuzarra while clutching a cute pooch (cue the awwws).

IMAGE: HARPERSBAZAAR.CO.UK

Members of our forum have had enough with Rosie’s umpteenth Bazaar appearance. “This looks like a posed Instagram shot,” complained A.D.C the moment the cover dropped.

“Awful, and I can never understand this obsession they have with her. It looks like she was Photoshopped onto that chair. Dress doesn’t work, backdrop looks like a painting, clearly Agata does much better outdoors than indoors,” added Benn98. (more…)

It’s becoming increasingly apparent that Numéro isn’t the cutting-edge publication it once was. Cameron Russell‘s cover from mid-2017 was the last to captivate our forums and now the French fashion magazine just unveiled its latest cover featuring Cara Delevingne. Cara was declared the new face of Christian Dior Cosmetics back in October and the Numéro team clearly found it fitting for the model/actress to don Dior (what little of it she’s wearing, anyway) in the stark black and white February 2018 cover photo, photographed by Jean-Baptiste Mondino. But something about this shot looks awfully familiar.

IMAGE: NUMERO.COM

Our forum members won’t be rushing out to grab a copy, that’s for sure. “Did they even try? My goodness,” disapproved MON at once.

You’re probably used to seeing Gisele Bündchen look a certain type of way on the cover of magazines. Take, for example, the Brazilian bombshell looking every inch the supermodel on Vogue Japan‘s February cover last month and in the new Versace campaign. Now, posing as never before, the model opened up her family home one lazy Sunday to photographer Jamie Hawkesworth, who shot Gisele in comfortable surroundings for two inviting and intimate covers of Vogue Italia’s February 2018 issue.

IMAGE: MODELS.COM

Despite the magazine’s recent decline in standards, our forum members were in awe this month. “This is probably the first new Vogue Italia cover I liked. Gisele is so iconic,” said marsnoop2 the second the first cover (above) came to light.

“Love the fact that it doesn’t look like a fashion magazine cover, and looks very cozy and comfy, I like it,” wrote Your Anchor. (more…)

Karl Lagerfeld has long favored the likes of Kendall Jenner, Gigi Hadid and Bella Hadid for Fendi’s various advertising campaigns, yet replacing BFF’s Kendall and Gigi for Spring 2018 are models Vittoria Ceretti and Taylor Hill. The Italian fashion label’s latest proves that not even the best models can save Karl’s concepts and imagery from mediocrity (once again). It may be time to take things outdoors — or hire someone besides himself as campaign photographer — as the girls pose amongst a fairly bland studio set, doing little else.

IMAGE: FENDI.COM

Members of our forums weren’t feeling this season’s campaign, to say the very least. “Last season they had a very solid collection with two boring models for the campaign, now I like the model choice but not the collection. Also, the hair looks too messy and don’t suit the styling for me. The most tragic thing is Karl’s photography though, so uninspired,” slammed apple the moment the campaign struck.

“Oh God, I miss the time when Karl used to shoot his campaigns outdoors. The worst thing about those weird sets is that they don’t add anything interesting to the campaign,” Lola701 noted. (more…)